Breast support



Aug. 27, 1946. 1 a. AX- 2,406,576

BREAST SUPPORT Fiied Dec. 23, 1944 INVENTOR; Ham/5 .flX

Patented Aug. 27, 1946 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE 1 Claim.

My invention aims to provide a new and improved breast support for use in connection with brassieres. Brassieres of the usual type comprise a brassiere body provided with a covering for the bust, shaped to enclose the breasts of the wearer; a belt and shoulder straps.

Simple constructions of this type, while providing support for the bust, do not prevent the tendency of the supporting parts to press the breasts together and thereby deform the same.

It has heretofore been proposed to construct elaborate and expensive garments of this character provided with additional means, for instance, sling-like elements, and so forth, in order to give not only uplift and support to the breasts of the wearer, but also to avoid any deformation of the same.

The principal object of this invention is to provide a means which can be easily connected with the well known simple brassieres, and by which the same efiect may be reached as by the p more elaborate and more expensive constructions known and used before.

This will be accomplished, according to this invention, by providing brassires with easily detachable hoops or loops of annular or oval shape, constructed of stiff springy material, said hoops being passed under the breasts of the wearer.

Other objects and advantages of the invention will become apparent and will be best understood from a consideration of the following detailed description, taken in connection with the accompanying drawing, in which the invention is illustrated as appliedto usual types of simple brassieres. It is understood, however, that the invention is equally applicable to other brassires than that selected for illustration.

In the said drawing,

Figure 1 is the rear view of a brassiere provided with a device according to this invention;

Figure 2 is a front view of one of the hoops according to this invention;

Figure 3 is a section according to lin 33 of Figure 2;

Figure 4 shows a detail, i. e., a means for attaching the hoop shown in Figures 2 and 3 to the body of the brassiere.

As shown in Figure 1, a pair of open rings 2 is detachably connected at the inner side of the brassire near where the shoulder straps 3 are attached to the same. The connection of the hoops or rings 2 to the brassiere is accomplished by means of eyes 4 and hooks 5.

As shown in Figure 4, the eyes 4 are attached on a pad to be sewn on the inner side of the brassiere; the hooks 5 are attached to the ends 2-a and 2-4) of the open rings 2.

The rings 2 may consist of steel, plastics, or other appropriate material, preferably covered with a soft fabric. Due to their elasticity they will conform to the shape of the breast without injury. In case it will be necessary to use an expanded ring, due to the shape of the breast of the wearer, it will not be necessary to use a ring of larger size. All that is necessary is to enlarge the distance between the eyes 4 on the pad, either by cutting the pad at the top and thereby providing a V-shaped space between the eyes (as shown at 6 in Figure 4) or by separating the pad into two parts and sewing said parts at the proper places on the brassire to provide the necessary space between the hooks 5 at 2a and 2--b.

By applying the hoops, attached to the inner side of the brassiere as described, to the bosom of the wearer, and passing the same under the base of the breasts, the tendency of the brassire of unduly pressing the breasts together and thereby deforming the breasts is thereby counteracted. When the hoops according to this invention are applied, the breasts are in fact maintained in a spread-apart or natural position. Due to their elasticity, the rings will always conform to the shape of the breast.

It is quite evident that by applying the hoops according to this invention to a simple brassiere in the manner described and by using them as intended, the purpose of the invention is performed in a very simple and inexpensive way, and the same effect will be reached as with elaborate constructions known before. The rings being entirely concealed in the brassire body, the original appearance of the brassire is not changed at all.

It will of course be understood that my invention is not limited to the particular forms herein shown and described, but may be variously modified within the scope of the appended claim.

I claim:

In a breast support comprising a pair of supporting elements consisting of hoops of a springy material for disposition under the breasts of the wearer, detachably provided at the inner side of a brassiere of the usual type; said hoops consisting of rings open at the top and means for attaching said rings to the inner side of the brassire, consisting of hooks provided at the open ends of the rings, and eyes attached to a pad sewn at the proper places on the brassire, near where the shoulder straps are connected to the same.

HELENE AX. 

